Wellness Wednesday is a weekly podcast series from the BU Today newsroom at Boston University. Each new episode will share tips and expert advice on issues from nutrition to mental health to sleep to fitness to relationships to meditation and more.
Your to-do list is probably as long as your arm, you have a cold, and you have three tests to study for—it’s finals time. If you’re stressing big-time...
You might be considering pulling out your stretchy pants in preparation for next week’s Thanksgiving dinner. But instead of stacking your plate high w...
Everyone has setbacks. It might be a failed test, a bad breakup, or not getting that dream internship. You feel like crawling into bed, closing the sh...
It’s the countdown to Halloween, and so for this week’s installment of our “Wellness Wednesday” series, we have candy on the brain. We caught up with ...
This week, we have a candid conversation with Liliana Torres, a student at Boston University who is living with depression. Torres is a student health...
You and your best friends from home are now separated, not by a few blocks, but by hundreds or maybe thousands of miles, for nine months out of the ye...
You hear it all the time. You know it’s true. Exercise has a positive effect on your health and mood. It delivers more energy than a cup of coffee, it...
A roommate is the first person you’ll see when you wake up, the last person you’ll see when you go to bed, and it’s more than likely you’ll eat plenty...
Boston University’s dining halls are all-you-can-eat mash-ups of cuisines, choices, and calories. Depending on your mood, dinner can be a baked potato...
You’ve brushed your teeth and said good night to your roommate—or roommates. If you’re like most of us, the last thing you’ll do before closing your e...